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Back in 2007, conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg introduced his https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767917189?ie=UTF8&tag=washpost-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0767917189 (“Liberal Fascism”) by writing, in essence: I know you are but what am I? He was tired, he wrote, of having the right called “fascist” and promised to turn the tables, to show that fascism “is not a phenomenon of the right at all. It is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left.” More recently, Dinesh D’Souza made the same argument in his 2017 book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621573486?ie=UTF8&tag=washpost-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=1621573486 (“The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left”) and again in his forthcoming film “Death of a Nation.”
These very, very bad histories would hardly be worthy of dignifying with comment if our times weren’t so dangerous, with murderous white supremacists holding fasces-decorated shields in the streets of Charlottesville and neo-Nazi parties winning parliamentary seats in Europe.
Their mangled history goes something like this: Franklin Roosevelt expanded the size of the central state, Adolf Hitler admired American models of segregation in the Democratic-dominated South and striking unionists could be violent. Fascism featured these same elements of statism, racism and violence; therefore, fascism was born of the political left.
The shopping list of evidence goes on. The full name of the German fascist party has the word “socialist” right in it, they point out: the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National-Socialist Workers Party. Early 1930s German capitalists, they add, didn’t throw their support substantially to Hitler. And Mussolini was a member of the Italian Socialist Party before being kicked out and starting the Fascist Revolutionary Party. Those peddling this distorted concept of liberal fascism also recall that fascists often expressed opposition to traditional conservative blocs like the church or monarchists.
But while it’s quite a list, all the cherry-picked evidence in the world won’t help you if you’re committing a category error, a fallacy in which one compares or conflates things that actually belong in different categories. Arguing for “liberal fascism” is like arguing about “atheist believers in God.” Fascism and leftism belong in fundamentally different categories, because the essence of fascism was, and is, anti-leftism.
In a version of reality remote from our own, Hitler was a liberal. Slavery was an outgrowth of socialist principles. And the Democrats have updated the cotton plantation for modern times.
This is the warped, unrecognizable world presented in a new documentary, “Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?” But this is no fringe portrayal. It is a revisionist account of history and contemporary politics that boasts the endorsement of the president’s son. And the man behind it, Dinesh D’Souza, has been rehabilitated by President Trump himself, who this spring used his pardon pen to usher the conservative commentator and filmmaker back into the realm of respectable politics.
From cutting rooms to college campuses, one of the sharpest arrows in the quiver of right-wing provocateurs has been the charge that they are trivialized and victimized. But this weapon has lost its edge in the Trump era, as the president, his family members and his allies roll out the red carpet for figures whose propagation of hateful myths once placed them beyond the pale of mainstream American discourse.
On Wednesday, there was a literal red carpet, down which D’Souza walked with Donald Trump, Jr., at the Washington premiere of his new documentary. The event was the latest illustration of how the president or his associates have breathed life into far-right theories with little or no basis in reality — theories that now enjoy a following among some members of the Republican Party who see themselves as most closely aligned with the White House.
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Like Brando in The Wild Ones "What'd ya got" Libs protest because they're unhappy people and want us to be too.
Trump on the Couch
INSIDE THE MIND OF THE PRESIDENT
Trump on the Couch by Justin A. Frank, MD | PenguinRandomHouse.com
A full psychoanalytic portrait of President Donald Trump by the New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch.
No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. Questions and concerns about his decisions, his behavior, and and his qualifications for office only seem to multiply with time. How can he behave so callously and irresponsibly? Does he pose a true danger to our country? How could he even have been elected?
In answer, noted psychoanalyst Justin A. Frank takes a deep dive into the psyche of our president. Using observations gained from a close study of Trump’s patterns of thought, action, and communication, Dr. Frank gives us a full portrait of the personality we saw on display during his remarkable campaign and helps us understand what has driven the decision-making during his first years in office.
The result is filled with important revelations about our nation’s leader, and disturbing insights into his childhood, his family, his business dealings, and his unusual relationship with alternative facts, including how
* The absence of a strong maternal force during childhood has led to Trump’s remarkable lack of empathy and disregard for women’s boundaries (as well as his unusual hairstyle);
* His compulsion to polarize America has grown out of the way he perceives the world as full of deceitful and destructive persecutors;
* his inability to tolerate the pain of frustration has triggered his belief that omnipotence will finally remove it;
* his idiosyncratic use of language points to larger issues than even his tweets might suggest.
With Dr. Frank’s penetrating examination of how we as a nation got here and, more important, where we are going, Trump on the Couch offers a candid assessment of the man who is arguably the most psychologically damaged president we have yet had.
INSIDE THE MIND OF THE PRESIDENT
Trump on the Couch by Justin A. Frank, MD | PenguinRandomHouse.com
A full psychoanalytic portrait of President Donald Trump by the New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch.
No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. Questions and concerns about his decisions, his behavior, and and his qualifications for office only seem to multiply with time. How can he behave so callously and irresponsibly? Does he pose a true danger to our country? How could he even have been elected?
In answer, noted psychoanalyst Justin A. Frank takes a deep dive into the psyche of our president. Using observations gained from a close study of Trump’s patterns of thought, action, and communication, Dr. Frank gives us a full portrait of the personality we saw on display during his remarkable campaign and helps us understand what has driven the decision-making during his first years in office.
The result is filled with important revelations about our nation’s leader, and disturbing insights into his childhood, his family, his business dealings, and his unusual relationship with alternative facts, including how
* The absence of a strong maternal force during childhood has led to Trump’s remarkable lack of empathy and disregard for women’s boundaries (as well as his unusual hairstyle);
* His compulsion to polarize America has grown out of the way he perceives the world as full of deceitful and destructive persecutors;
* his inability to tolerate the pain of frustration has triggered his belief that omnipotence will finally remove it;
* his idiosyncratic use of language points to larger issues than even his tweets might suggest.
With Dr. Frank’s penetrating examination of how we as a nation got here and, more important, where we are going, Trump on the Couch offers a candid assessment of the man who is arguably the most psychologically damaged president we have yet had.
